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Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 57, Issue 10, Page 1727-1756, October 2026.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spinning the Past Forward: Recording, Archiving, and (Re‐)listening to Siberian Phonograph Cylinders From the Jesup North Pacific Expedition

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 589-608, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
wiley   +1 more source

Botanical inventory of the early book herbaria of Leonhard Rauwolf from southern France and northern Italy (1560–1563)

open access: yesTAXON, Volume 75, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Sixteenth‐century herbaria are the oldest plant collections that survive today and, as such, they provide valuable insights in past floras and historical botanical interactions. One of the most fascinating still extant 16th‐century herbaria is the four‐volume collection of the German physician, botanist and traveler Leonhard Rauwolf (1535 ...
Anastasia Stefanaki   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pliny Reasoner's Sales Book

open access: yes, 1884
Sales book of Pliny Reasoner, founder of the Reasoner Brothers' Royal Palm Nursery of Oneco. The first page includes a receipt of Reasoner's purchases from J.W. Harllee from 1886. The subsequent pages are records of plant sales made by Reasoner from 1884
Pliny Reasoner
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A Tortured Image: The Biography of Lucullus' Dying Hercules

open access: yesCalifornia Italian Studies, 2016
This essay explores a Roman triumphal monument put up at the heart of Rome by the triumphator Lucullus in the 1st c. BCE, and its Imperial afterlife after the fall of the Republic.
Ann Kuttner
doaj   +1 more source

Ceramic Production and Geodiversity in Iron Age Iberia: An Archaeometric Study of Pottery from Castrejón de Capote (SW Spain)

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 659-673, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Block Kinematics, Interseismic Coupling and Fault Slip Rates in the Aegean Region From GPS and Earthquake Slip Vector Data: 2. Hellenic Subduction System

open access: yesJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract The Hellenic subduction system is the primary locus of Nubia‐Eurasia convergence, yet the distribution of strain accumulation along it is still debated. Here, we invert 832 geodetic velocities and 146 earthquake slip vectors to assess the spatial variability of interseismic locking and provide new constraints on the rate of slip deficit ...
Konstantinos Chousianitis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Playing together: modular tools and Pliny [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In the early days the Digital Humanities (DH) focused on the development of tools to support the individual scholar to perform original scholarship, and tools such as OCP and TACT emerged that were aimed at the individual scholar.
John Bradley
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Cultic Allusions in the Heraklitos Mosaic

open access: yesPotestas. Estudios del Mundo Clásico e Historia del Arte, 2019
The Heraklitos mosaic, which dates to the second century ad and is displayed today at the Vatican Museums, depicts the theme of the asàrotos òikos (‘unswept floor’) alongside allusions to Dionysian and Isiac mystery cults. The mosaic is
Ehud Fathy
doaj   +1 more source

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